The Bay Area could use some of that job-creating transit money, with projects like a new transit hub in downtown San Francisco, to the extension of BART to San Jose and the Oakland Airport, San Francisco's Central Subway, and electrification of Caltrain.

While the study did not speculate as to how much indirect economic benefit transit projects would provide over car-centric projects, even if financially less, the reduction in externalities -- costs not easily accounted for by direct markets -- like pollution, public health and imported energy like oil would likely be significant.